On Sunday, June 1, 2014 5:25:21 PM UTC+1, Bernard Burton wrote:
"Scott W" wrote in message ... A bit of Sunday reading for you all. What I find fascinating is how this happened two weeks before Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated - exactly the same timescale as the lightning strike in 1939 that happened two weeks before Neville Chamberlain declared war on Germany http://wansteadmeteo.wordpress.com/2...lide-into-ww1/ Thank you for posting that interesting news event, Scott. I was born and raised in Tooting Bec, (though I wasn't there in 1914 I hasten to add) and am very familiar with many of the places mentioned in the articles, in fact my primary school was at Tooting Broadway. I must say that as a boy I was told never to shelter under trees in a thunderstorm, but did not know then that the safest thing to do if caught in the open is to crouch down as low as possible, keeping the feet together. Needless to say, German bombs were the hazard of my childhood, and posed more of an ever present threat than a thunderstorm would. I am not sure why you have included mention of the start of WW1, a completely unrelated event, saving that it happened in the same month and year, (as did millions of other unrelated events, significant to somebody). Even if the storm had happened on the same day as the Archduke was killed, there would be no discernible relationship between them, even if the Archduke had been killed by lightning, unless he had been in south London at the time. -- Bernard Burton Wokingham Berkshire. Weather data and satellite images at: http://www.woksat.info/wwp.html

Thanks, Bernard. I appreciate you sharing your memories.

I included mention of WW1 just because it was topical to this month - and, from a very personal viewpoint (perhaps selfish to some!), a way of explaining how I interpreted historical events as a young lad. Perhaps it is completely irrational - but then it is just a personal blog.